Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:31:11 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Noob question .... Message-ID: <543FBA8F.6080205@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1410152027010.81686@wonkity.com> References: <543F041D.7030206@hiwaay.net> <20141016013646.34d542e6.freebsd@edvax.de> <543F0863.60205@hiwaay.net> <20141016020025.27547cc0.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1410152027010.81686@wonkity.com>
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On 10/15/14 21:30, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:50:59 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> *Aaaaaaaaack* !!!! That clarifies an important misunderstanding for me >>> .... I thought STABLE would be more/most stable, maybe a refinement on >>> RELEASE .... Thx for the clarification. >> >> The name -STABLE is to be understood as "more stable than >> -CURRENT", because when you check out the development branch, >> it _might_ happen that it misbehaves or that it won't even >> compile; it can also happen that an experimental feature >> in -CURRENT is being removed later on. > > -STABLE means the ABI is stable. So applications compiled for 9.1 > will still run on 9-STABLE, and vice versa. > > In effect, the -STABLE branch ends up being -RELEASE plus bug fixes > and new features, the continued development after a release. Where a > -RELEASE is a snapshot in time, -STABLE is the latest version of that > branch. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Yes, your link/web-page crystallized everything perfectly .... Thx :-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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